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By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 23, 2019 10 Comments[Editor note: A ‘clarification and apology’ associated with this post is here. The author failed to note that Andrew Dessler also stated, “I debate in the peer-reviewed literature.”]
… Continue Reading“Doesn’t the wholesale reordering of our society demand at least a little bit of public debate? We think so.” (Heartland Institute)
“In a public debate, advocates can use all kinds of rhetorical tricks, as well as outright lies, to advance their cause. There’s no way to counter them in that forum.” (Andrew Dessler)
“All of the noise right now from the climate change denial machine, the bots & trolls, the calls for fake “debates,” etc. Ignore it all. Deniers are desperate for oxygen in a mainstream media environment that is thankfully is no longer giving it to them. Report.
Energy & Environmental Newsletter: August 29, 2019
By John Droz, Jr. -- August 29, 2019 4 CommentsThe Alliance for Wise
Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and
organizations interested in improving national, state, and local
energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters
like these should be addressed by using Real Science
(please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end,
every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is
found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We
appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in
publishing this information.
Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
China has slashed
clean energy funding by 39%, leading a global decline
China switches $1B in
‘green’ finance to coal projects in first half of the year
The Misanthropic
Bankers Behind the Green New Deal
How Elon Musk Fooled
Investors, Bilked Taxpayers, etc.
General Electric
shares tank following accusation of ‘bigger fraud than Enron’
NY Offshore Wind bids
rigged for unions
Wind Turbines Can Cause
Sickness, Say Public Health Officials
Wind Turbines and
Adverse Health Effects: A Cardiologist’s View
Duke Energy study
points finger at solar for increased pollution
The Environmental
Disaster of Solar Energy
The Dark Side of
China’s Solar Boom
Explaining Wind
Turbine Lethality
Utility Studies delay
both Wind and Solar Projects in the US Northeast
Renewable Energy Hits
the Wall
Why Wind and Solar
Aren’t Enough
Big Wind’s Big
Headwinds
Wind Project is
Trespassing
Physics Professor:
Turbines could compromise radar signals
Short Video: The Green Real Deal
China and India Will
Watch the West Destroy Itself
The Latest Travesty in
“Consensus” Enforcement
Re-evaluating the
manufacture of the climate consensus
Dr Roy Spencer: How the Media Help to
Destroy Rational Climate Debate
Superior Video: Global Warming — Fact or Fiction
Dr.…
Review of ‘Introduction to Modern Climate Change’ by Andrew Dessler (Part II: Physical Science)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 22, 2019 1 CommentThis continues my three-part review of Andrew Dessler’s primer on the physical science and political economy of climate change, Introduction to Modern Climate Change (2nd edition: 2016).
Part I, “Suggestions for More Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Less Advocacy,” brought attention to the uneven treatment of issues in science, economics, and public policy that tainted the primer. I questioned the Deep Ecology assumption of optimal nature, wherein, according to Dessler, “any change in climate, either warming or cooling, will result in overall negative outcomes for human society” (p. 146).
This seems exactly wrong in our interglacial period when climate-related fatalities have fallen dramatically and agricultural production has soared thanks to warmth but particularly to fossil-fueled capitalism. Incentives and wealth have proven more than a match for the vicissitudes of weather and climate. As Alex Epstein (The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, pp.…
Continue ReadingEnergy & Environmental Newsletter: August 12, 2019
By John Droz, Jr. -- August 12, 2019 3 CommentsThe Alliance for Wise Energy
Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested
in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise
is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science.
(Please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three
weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media
about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance
in publishing this information.
Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Cost-Effective ‘Renewable’ Energy Is A Fictional Construct
There is no conservative momentum for a carbon tax
Bill Gates: The hidden costs of unreliable electricity
Why should we subsidize tomorrow’s rich in the name of the climate?…